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“We were never meant to know any of this:” Gareth Peirce on torture, rendition and the UK’s complicity in Guantánamo Bay
Eminant human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce will deliver a DARE Liberty Lecture at the Howard Assembly Room on Friday 15 April as part of the ON Liberty...
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Culture Vulture’s Phil Kirby is inspired to rhyme after seeing Opera North’s children’s opera, Cautionary Tales
“When it ended I could easily have watched it again, it was that good. I was gripped by Belloc’s words, and the sheer ludicrousnous of the tales of Karmic comeu...
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Our back-to-back gigs with The Unthanks and support act Trembling Bells are fast approaching and sold out on Friday 25 and Saturday 26 March. Perfectly timed to coincide with Spring 2011’s “folk renaissance” with big wins for UK folk acts Mumford and Sons and Laura Marling at ...
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With just three days to go until the premiere of Life Cycle at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 13 March, here are some more of Toby Litt’s lyrics from the s...
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It’s the final countdown in the last few days before the premiere of Life Cycle at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 13 March. Here are some more lyrics from Life Cycle songs, written by Toby Litt for music composed by Emily Hall, charting the course of new parenthood to birth ...
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A brand new song series, Life Cycle, charting one woman’s progress on her journey to becoming a mother, premieres next week as part of the WOW-Women of the World Festival at the Southbank Centre, London. The series of twenty songs about creating and nurturing life is less freq...
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A new children’s opera Cautionary Tales opens next week in the Howard Assembly Room and we interviewed sisters Lexi (age 8 ) and Izzy (age 3) to get their thoughts and expectations of the piece after being read the poem about Jim.
Based on Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Ta...
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